Even at the age of 43, Sri Chinmoy has clearly not lost his childhood skills as he climbs a tree in the backyard of a disciple’s home in New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Radar, the world’s tallest horse, 6’7½” high (from the ground to back) and handler weighing 2,750 lbs., in Stanfordville, New York.
Inside the finite, the Infinite
A talk by Sri Chinmoy on 1 June 2007 at a Seeker Meditation, Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica, New York.
The world’s smallest horse came here yesterday. It gave me so much joy! I am inviting the seekers to come and receive something cute: a photograph with the world’s smallest horse, Thumbelina.
At the beginning of the month, I lifted the smallest horse; at the end of this month, I shall lift Radar, the tallest horse.
[A video of Sri Chinmoy lifting Thumbelina was shown. On the video, Sri Chinmoy remarked:]
I was getting tremendous joy. Although I was lifting one little horse, the smallest horse in the world, I felt that I was lifting at that time hundreds of little horses. These are my little brothers and sisters from another kingdom, from the animal kingdom. They give me tremendous joy! They are so innocent, so, so loving, always. They exist on earth to give us joy. These animals live on earth only to give us joy. We are their elder brothers and sisters, their superior ones and they serve us in a very, very special way. For that we should be very, very grateful to our little brothers and sisters who are now still in the animal kingdom….
For me it was a great experience. I was meeting with my little sister, Thumbelina, who is full of love, full of affection.
[After the video, Sri Chinmoy made the following comments:]
When we think of God, we immediately feel that God is infinite, eternal, immortal. We think of His Infinity, Eternity and Immortality. Tagore, India’s greatest poet, wrote a poem that became a song. The first line runs, Simar majhe asim tumi bajao apan sur. It means, “Inside the finite, O Absolute, You play Your song-music-melody. I am a tiny body. Inside my finite body You play Your infinite melody. Therefore it is so sweet, so sweet.”
Inside the finite if we can see the Infinite, that realisation is infinitely more beautiful than the realisation that tells us that only inside the Infinite can we see God. God is inside both the Infinite and the finite. It is very difficult to imagine God when we see a tiny object — let us say, a grain of sand. For us, to think of God inside that tiny grain is very difficult. If we think of the Himalayas or something else very vast, then it is quite easy for us to think and feel that God is there.
Yesterday Thumbelina gave me boundless, boundless joy. We have seen many, many horses and at the end of this month we shall see the world’s tallest horse. This is the smallest horse and the tallest horse also I shall be able to lift. God is so kind to me! I shall be able to go from the smallest to the tallest in the same month.
Published in I Wanted to be a Seeker of the Infinite